CONTENTS 
The First Outing Herman T. Bohlman Frontispiece 
A Study in Bird Confidence . William Lovell Finley , 8 photos by Herman T. Bohlman 91 
The Future Problems and Aims of Ornithology — A Letter from Mr. William 
Brewster 95 
Scraps from an Owl Table Vernon Bailey 97 
Notes on the Bohemian Waxwing Rev. S. H. Goodwin 98 
Midwinter Birds on the Mojave Desert Joseph Mailliard and Joseph Grinnell 
(Concluded) 101 
The Sage Grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus L. E. Burnett , (1 photo) 102 
Birds from the West Coast of Lower California and Adjacent Islands Hnery B. Kaeding 105 
FROM FIELD AND STUDY.— Notes by L. Beldmg, W. F. Dean , W. Otto Emer- 
son, Florence Merriam Bailey , Frank C. Willard 112-113 
NOTES AND NEWS 114 
A New Egg-blowing Device (cut) W. L. Colvin 115 
Minutes of Club Meetings 115 
CAMP AGASSIZ 
At Glen Alpine in the Lake Tahoe 
Forest Reserve, California 
OPENED JUNE 15 th 
The camp is in Glen Alpine, a famous glacier 
gorge in the Sierras, six miles southwest of Tallac ; 
elevation 6.700 feet above sea level. The camp site 
is on high ground a few hundred yards from the 
beautiful Modjeska Falls, amid a luxuriant grove 
of pine and fir trees. Within eight miles of Camp 
Agassiz are a dozen peaks from eight to ten 
thousand feet high, on whose sides lie eternal 
snow fields, and there are 44 lakes, of which 30 
contain trout — eight different kinds. Is there 
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To enjoy the mountains , and all that is in them, 
to protect the forests and the game , to explore and 
make accessible for others the wild places, is the 
aim of Camp Agassiz. 
The camp affords unexcelled opportunities for 
hunting, fishing, and natural history study. It is 
a place where one may do things, healthful things 
out of doors, and have more distinct occupations 
— there are 14 — than can be found the world over. 
For further details address the director, 
WILLIAM W. PRICE, 
Glen Alpine, Lake Tahoe, - California 
WILD WINGS 
Adventures of ft. Camem-Hunter among the 
larger Wild Birds of America on Land and Sea. 
By HERBERT K. JOB 
Author of "Among the Water-Fowl" 
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President Roosevelt, and 160 illustrations. Square 
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TWO STANDARD GUIDES 
Handbook of Birds of the Western United 
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A Guide to the Birds of New England and 
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4 full page plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and 
about 100 cuts in the text. i2mo, $1.50, net-, 
postage, 13 cents. Also issued in a Field Edition, 
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